MSchool may have just started, but the Halloween “season” is
already sneaking up on us.

This weekend, Dorney Park opens its Boo! Blast at the South
Whitehall Township amusement park.

Children can enjoy Halloween-themed fun without the scares noon
to 5 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 27. Boo! Blast is the
family-friendly celebration that happens during the day at Dorney Park. At 6
p.m. the park transforms into the Haunt, recommended for those age 13 and up.

New this year little ones can explore the Mansion House Hotel
during the day. One of the Haunt’s most popular adult attractions, in the past the hotel was only open after 6 p.m. During
the day, friendly ghosts will help guide children through the 10,000 square
foot Mansion House Hotel, which is based on the original turn-of-the-century
Dorney Park hotel around which the park grew.

Also new will be two kids rides - the Magic Express and the
Spooky Spinners – which will be set up in Howl-O-Fest Cove. The rides are two
of the children’s rides that were in the park’s former “Tot Spot.”

Returning this year, kids can trick-or-treat with 30 life-sized
animatronic dinosaurs in the park's Dinosaurs Alive! exhibit. There is an
additional $5 charge.

During Boo! Blast, children 56 inches tall and under can collect
candy from storybook characters on Trick or Treat Street, pedal a miniature
tractor through a course at Pop-Pop's Tractor Stomp, paint pumpkins, navigate a
hay bale maze, pick a pumpkin in the pumpkin patch, watch the Great Pumpkin
appear and make funny masks. Activities are noon-5 p.m. both days in
Howl-O-Fest Cove in the wave pool area of Wild Water Kingdom. Children also
join a costume contest at 1:30 and 4 p.m. both days; hear Mother Goose stories
at 1:45; 2:45 and 3:45 p.m. or join a Spooky Tunes Dance Party at 1 and 3 p.m. all
in Howl-O-Fest Cove.

Planet Snoopy, Dorney's 3.5-acre kiddie area, will be open during
Boo!Blast with a not-too-scary Halloween theme show at the Showplace. “Charlie
Brown's Pirate Adventure” will be presented at 12:30, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30 and 4:30
p.m..

On Dorney Park's main midway, kids who want to become a member of
the circus community can go to the Clown Factory at Funzone Arcade, where
clowns will transform them with a red nose and wig they can keep. Kids also can
go on Snoopy’s treasure hunt for some pirate loot in a pirate ship at Hydra
Plaza.

Tickets are $30.99 online at www.dorneypark.com.
Anyone who buys a 2014 season pass will get a free visit to Boo!Blast in 2013.